Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-24
TEHAMA COUNTY rXHIBIr.
A Section of Rare Beauty and Grea
Fertility.

A Section of Rare Beauty and Great
Fertility.
The Tehama county exhibit is full of
suggestion. We shall not enlarge upon it
greatly, for but very recently the RECORD
UNION has exhaustively set forth the facts
concerning this county and its marvellous
production. Visitors at the tair should
especially take note in the Tehama booth
of the grains shown, the nuts, the corn and
apples. We would not place grapes second,
since Tehama has the largest vineyard
in the world. Yet the apples
shown by the Teammates certainly
win admiration beyond compare The
grapes from Governor Stanford's vinevard
will be noticed as especially fine. Pear
growth shown is second only to that of the
apple.
Tehama county is essentially a Northern
California county. 1t is at the head of the
great Sacramento valley; is some eighty
two miles in length, and has width of
about forty miles Its area is over 5000
square miles, and its acreages exceed
100000. With the foothills of the Coast
Range on one hand and of the Sierra on
the other, drained by the Sacramento river,
and with plains, rolling lands sandy loan,
alluvial deposit oak openings, the valley in
Tehama is unsurpassed for beauty. variety
of soil equability of climate and general
fertility. The range of production is as
wide as semi-tropic and temperate zone
growth.
Its water supply is unsurpassed by any sec
ton its drainage to the Sacramento river
by lateral streams is unequaled. In gem
erai healthfulness the section stands second
to none. The air is dry and hence heat is
never prostrating because such radiation
goes on as is impossible in humid atmes-
phere. 1t has indeed a winterless climate,
and its rainfall never fails, so that the GER
tainty of precipitation is an insurance to
the farmer and irrigation is not a necessity.
The average annual rainfall is about 80
inches, considerably larger average than
obtains further south in the valley. Crop
failures, consequently, are un-
known in Tehama. The river affords
Tehama a navigable free highway,
but in addition she has two
leading lines of railway directly relating
her production to Eastern and Southern
markets of the continent without change of
cars, while the northern direction of the
California and Oregon Railroad brings her
into direct communication with Montana,
Dakota, Idaho, Washington and Wyoming
The seat of government of Tehama is a
city of great rapidity of growth, extensive
business and most promising future. In
deed, than Red Bluff no northern town has
better assurance of rapid, substantial devel-
opment. Manufacturing is largely carried
on. The timber supply of the county is
very large and superior. Stockraising is
largely engaged in, and as a wool-grower
, Tehama has no successful rival upon the
coast.
The leading products of Tehama ex-
hibited are tomatoes, sweet potatoes, vari-
cites OF Irish potatoes, pumpkins and
squashes in variety, watermelons, musk
melons IN variety, turnips, cucumbers,
onions, peppers. peas, beans, cotton.
Chestnuts, almonds, English walnuts and
black wainuts, Indian, sweet and pop corn
varieties, Egyptian corn, several varieties
of wheat and barley, alfalfa, red-top
clover, a great number of varieties of
cranes, table and wine; raisins (sun and
steam-dried), bamboo, evergreen, millet.
pampas grass. Varieties of pears, peaches,
and apples (no finer in the fair; prunes
and plums in variety; ounces, ponie-
granateS, oranges, lemons, Japanese per-
simmons. To these examples of Tehama
growth we invite attention, convinced that
it viii repay the conscientious inquirer,
and even arouse the interest of the mere
curiosity hunter. II is to be noted that our
judgment as to Tehama apples has been
fortified by the jury OF award, which has
given w o. Jennings, of Tehama county
the first premium, $25, for the best apples
in the fair.